Betsey Johnson Quotes

I don’t like to have time on my wall; it’s too-in-your-face.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Faces Time Wall
I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Designer Live People
There is an excitement about having nightmares.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Excitement Nightmare
[In the 1960s]…you could take LSD but you couldn’t wear a pantsuit.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Lsd Pantsuit People
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Away Going Machines Use
Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Fashion Funny Girl
I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Better Cutting Fashion Feel
Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Disease Heart Love
I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Limelight Much Too Type
You have to hold onto your fantasy.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Fantasy Hold Onto
Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!
BETSEY JOHNSON

Beautiful Cancer Indulge Yourself
Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that’s extra special and thrilling because they shouldn’t be separated and their disabilities don’t have to separate them in anyway.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Dresses Mean Special
With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Cancer Daughter Mother
Hard times always lead to something great.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Difficult Hard Time Inspirational
I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it’s much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Dresses Hate Levels
It’s just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Clothes People Support
If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she’ll come back.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Bar Girl
When you’re designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that’s the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Fashion Home Light
I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Acrobatics Dancing Specialty
At any appearance, I make sure that before the person takes a pic and runs away, that I make contact. All I can do is give that little bit of me, the kickback is miraculous.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Giving Littles Running
If it hadn’t been for the rise of the working woman’s wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Found Kids Working Women
I was a cheerleader for nine years.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Cheerleading Nine Years
Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Garbage Real Speed
My customer isn’t wrapped up in labels and money.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Customer Labels Money
I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
BETSEY JOHNSON

Anything Beautiful Closets

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